Yes, that is exactly my impression. I have not run exhaustive experiments but I think that is it. Yes, for reasons related to other logic, this program contains Index. = "" but Sri's and my previous successful use of BPXWUNIX sort do not.
CM On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 17:17:23 +0000, Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org> wrote: >On Thu, 7 Mar 2024, at 16:54, Charles Mills wrote: >> Thank you! THAT is the clue I needed. I need to quote the stem names. >> Passing plain Index. passes "", the value of Index., to sort. > > >So... the difference between your code & Sri's is that you'd >initialised index. = "" whereas his didn't have a default >value for the stems? ... > >... because his example didn't have quotes around stem names? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
